Meeting Max

After hanging out at the library, waiting for Max's grand appearance...the room opened up, all the kids and parents filed in and sat on the floor to listen to a famous Max & Ruby book...Bunnycakes!!!  After the story, a craft room was opened up and Max came through the door to visit.

Max finally made it!

Taylor was one of the first kids to show him her favorite toy, a Max bunny!

We headed for the arts & crafts

Blake helped Taylor out

Tay made her own bunny ears

on the way out, she wanted to see him again...
she had to tell him "thank you"

and get a big hug

Blake was happy to rent a book he's been wanting for a long time...Dragonbreath

 We had a wonderful day together and will see what else the library will hold for us!

Can't wait to meet the real Max!

Taylor has LOVED Max & Ruby since the very first time she saw them on TV.  She had a Max and Ruby Birthday Tea Party last year...they are her very favorite characters! 

My dear friend, Karen actually drew this poster for her on her 3rd bday!!!!

All she wanted for her birthday was a Max & Ruby Birthday cake!!

She got lots of Max and Ruby gifts

I signed my little sweetie up for a "Meet Max" at the library.  There were waiting lists for this event all over town, I finally found one open...I knew we had to go! It ended up that I had to get Blake out of school early, just so we could go...sshhhh!  Taylor was so excited, all the way there, she was asking, "Mommy, are we there yet?" 

Blake came along!



waiting with her Max doll!

Winter Trip to the Zoo

April and I decided to take the kiddos to the zoo...it's January but oh well! It turned out to be a great day, a bit traumatic...as the laughing hyena was fed a cute white bunny, right in front of us :/  The image of that was quickly turned to happy thoughts of elephants, hippos, penguins, and prairie dogs!

You are special because...

In Blake's classroom, for his birthday, his friends wrote little notes to him.  Some of them were super sweet, others were hilarious....

They all started out with: 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BLAKE

You are special because...

"you are funny and cool"

"you always help me and I'm your best friend, Tyler"

"you have a smart brain and you are nice everytime I see you.  You are funny"

"you are funny, cool, and fun"

"you are smart"

"you are awesome and you are cool"

"you are nice"

"you are very funny"

"your comics are awesome"

"it is a verey speshl day, it is your day to shine, have meney wishis! From Sarah"

"Nowen else is exactlee like you, love Sophie. Have a wonderful day Blake"

"You are unique in your own way, for instanse, you like baseball, are nice and smart and you like video games"

These are adorable birthday gifts for Blake, such a thoughtful thing for the teacher to let the kids do!

                                       

Birthday #8

Blake is 8!! I can't believe that another year has passed.  We didn't do a birthday party for his this year, I thought he might be bummed, but he understood.  Aunt Sissy came over on her day off to give him her presents...she always gets him the best stuff!  She gave him two lego sets and money!  He's one happy bday boy!

Aunt Sissy got him Legos...he absolutely loves it!!!

Taylor and I made him his favorite chocolate cake from scratch (thanks for this recipe Mom) and decorated it.  We still decorated the dining room with streamers so that when he wakes up, he will be suprised. 

Couldn't find a #8 candle, so M&M's worked great!

Good morning and HAppy BirTHday!!!

happy to get a game for his ds!

Taylor got him a Big Nate book!

told ya that he'd get to have cake for breakfast!!!

My baby boy is 8 now!!!

This whole year has flown by...it seems like Blake just turned 7, but here it is again, another birthday...he's 8 now!!

Over the lst year he has...

played flag football for the Mid Rivers Raiders

played soccer at the YMCA

continued his creative writing and drawing...he is very artistic!

played an army ant in the school play!

danced his first hip hop dance recital!

got to golf with Dad!

started 2nd grade!

became a WOLF cub!

went to Kansas City for Nascar race

Halloween

became the official "elf on the shelf" reader

Christmas pic

turned 8 and got to have bday cake for breakfast! 

Visiting the Recycle Center

Today is the last day of Christmas vacation...we are visiting the recycle center with the cub scouts.  I was really excited, because I wondered what and how exactly they sort all that trash.  I absolutely LOVE to take out the trash now, because the recycle can is full and my regular "landfill" can is barely even used..it amazes me and makes me feel sooo good!

As a tribure to 9/11...kids donated plastic toys and covered
the statue of liberty!

They watched a video about how it all works

looking out into the line

lots of trash comes in and they sort through to find all the recycle blue bags..yuck!!

We all got weighed at the station!  We all weighed 1200 lbs together!!

After the tour, we decided to hit Burger King to let the kids play and grab breakfast.  We stayed all the way through lunch and got a chance to visit and hang out with friends for one last fun thing before the regular school schedule begins again.